I will describe the preparatory steps, for I believe they have not been mentioned by other travellers.
I thought I could perceive that the spider, before performing the above preparatory steps, connected its legs together with the most delicate threads, but I am not sure whether this observation was correct.
He began gathering up the reins, preparatory to resuming his way.
Firmstone gathered his reins, preparatory to resuming his way, but Zephyr laid a detaining hand on the horse's neck.
The preparatory or training dance took place on the night preceding the game, and none participated in it who were not to play on the following day.
For a moment he wriggled his toes, just as a golfer waggles his driverpreparatory to the stroke.
The enemy were now bringing up their heavy cannon, preparatory to an attack upon the American camp by the troops and by the ships.
Washington made the preparatory arrangements with great alertness, yet profound secrecy.
Fort Lee, consequently, became useless, and Washington ordered all the ammunition and stores to be removed, preparatory to its abandonment.
It was the anxious desire of Lord Fairfax to have these lands examined, surveyed, and portioned out into lots, preparatory to ejecting these interlopers or bringing them to reasonable terms.
Having passed the heights, therefore, he halted his division for the soldiers to take some refreshment, preparatory to the morning's hostilities.
Joseph Warren, one of the committee of safety, had observed the preparatory disposition of the boats and troops, and surmised some sinister intention.
They were considered indicative of determined hostility on the part of Great Britain, and they produced measures in Congress preparatory to an apprehended state of war.
Washington presumed that the main object of Sir Henry was to get possession of West Point, the guardian fortress of the river, and that the capture of Stony and Verplanck's Points were preparatory steps.
The injunction was not forgotten; both were in due time placed at a preparatory school in Salisbury, both entered Dartmouth College, and without an academic censure or reproof graduated with distinction.
The girl in the cigar factory, in the next block, had gone first to a preparatory school.
For six years I worked daytimes and went at night to a preparatory school.
The Yale Alumni Advisory Board has distributed to the "so-called Yale Preparatory Schools" and to schoolboys in many cities, a pamphlet on "Life at Yale.
Eastman, she became one of the founders of Dana Hall, the preparatoryschool in Wellesley village.
The year 1881 is marked by the closing, in June, of Wellesley's preparatory department, another intellectual advance.
The others were relegated to a preparatory department, of which Mr. Durant was always intolerant, and which was finally discontinued in 1881, the year of his death.
The university has been brought more prominently before preparatory schools.
All the colleges are feeling the need of keeping in touch with the preparatory schools, not for the sake of mere numbers, but to secure the best students.
Miss Freeman also "began the formation of standing committees of the faculty on important subjects, such as entrance examinations, graduate work, preparatory schools, etc.
The examiners, on inspecting her work, were inclined to decide that she ought to do more preparatory work before they could accept her.
The toast having been drunk with enthusiasm, Diggles, preparatory to his departure, inquired whether the gentlemen desired to be private.
While the troops were thus getting into order, preparatory to setting out for Macclesfield, a great number of the inhabitants of the town came forth to look at them--very much increasing the tumult and confusion.
The English, under General Abercrombie and the young Lord Howe, quartered at Fort George in 1758, preparatory to an attack upon the French posts upon Lake Champlain.
Articles of capitulation were agreed upon, and, under promise of protection, the garrison marched out of the fort preparatory to being escorted to Fort Edward.
Having, by great diligence, brought forward provisions for about thirty days, he advanced along the left bank of the Hudson to the mouth of the Batten Kill, where he encamped preparatory to crossing the river.
There I rested a few days, preparatoryto a visit to the beautiful valley "On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming!
The wagon was arrested in its progress by an apple-tree, and thus the sufferers remained for more than an hour, until their captors stretched them upon the beach, preparatory to embarkation.
At the feet of the latter, uncoiling, preparatory to striking a blow, is the venomous rattlesnake, an emblem used on some of the colonial flags when the war began.
The Mamelukes divided themselves into parties preparatory to the mimic fight, which was indeed nothing more than a succession of single combats.
Both had hitherto kept their horses somewhat within their speed preparatory to a trial of endurance.
Dimly the officer had seen Ned Strong stagger through the smoke toward the doors of the hoist, which were open preparatory to receiving another load.
Another instance which seems to indicate that the souls of these earthly objects were used merely during the preparatory state, was the yearly feast given to departed souls during the period that this condition endured.
Preparatory to any important undertaking, cocks, dogs, or even men, were sacrificed to secure the favor of the gods.
By eating prairie-dogs and other game, some sought to gather souls, apparently with a view to increase the purity of their own and shorten the preparatory term.
The Squire was busy in his office, looking over Nash's legacy, preparatory to sending it to Bangs, who had begged him to forward the documents without delay.
Now he was polishing his nether extremities with a towel, preparatory to adding a pair of gaudy striped trousers to his borrowed gear.
At eight Mr. Bangs came down the hill, and posted one of the Richards as sentry, while the fisherman indulged in his evening smoke, preparatory to turning in under the skiff with his friend Bill.
He was not well prepared in spite of the fact that he had worked hard for a part of his final year in the preparatory school.
The other heads are rather preparatory to the last than to be ranked equally along with it.
The officers all met at headquarters preparatory to the breaking up of the corps, and indulged in a jolly time; groups were taken by artists, and after spending the day in mirth, they returned to their quarters at night.
French, and ordered the Heights evacuated and the troops to re-enforce the army, preparatory to a decisive battle.
Maurice hastily slipped on his trousers preparatory to going down to the street, but just then Combette appeared at the door with a bed-candle in his hand, gesticulating wildly.
A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; -- used esp.
A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
The feelers of both forces were being extended to discover the various positions, preparatory to a big battle, which was expected on the morrow (Oct.
Stanton, as he had presided over the whole preparatory process, so too had kept watch over the daily progress of the trial from afar.
Some rounded up the cattle and sheep preparatory to driving them off; others hitched oxen to carts and drove them to the middle of the village, where still others piled the furniture from the cottages into the carts.
Jeanne's first herald, Guienne, was found bound to a stake preparatory to burning him.
This led to the idea that this life is but the preparatory stage to the great hereafter.
Both Jehuda ha Levi and Maimonides, however, regard Christianity and Islam as preparatory steps for the Messiah, who is to unify the world through the knowledge of God.
